Author: Edgar Allan PoeClassic crime | Historical mysteries | Classic horror & ghost storiesPublished on 3rd March 2016 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the 'Penguin Little Black Classics' series.Paperback / softback | 128 pages 163mm x 113mm x 11mm | 100g He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.